About 150 years ago, there appeared to be a 'hard problem of life'—the sense that life could not be explained in physics and chemistry and required something like vital force; but this mystery was dissolved as explanatory mechanisms (like DNA) showed life could be explained physically, providing hope that the hard problem of consciousness might similarly be dissolved with better mechanistic explanations.
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Anil SethEvidence Quote
“about 150 years ago not so long ago people thought life couldn't be explained in terms of stuff in terms of physics and chemistry there had to be something else there seemed to be an analogous hard problem of life right but of course that didn't turn out to be right...so I I like to think that as we build Bridges between explanations in terms of mechanisms and what experience is like then maybe the Hard problem won't be solved but it might be dissolved”
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